Advaith Sethuraman
Software Engineer at Waymo
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAdvaith Sethuraman is a software engineer and ML-focused perception engineer with eight years of experience building autonomy systems, currently on Waymo’s Perception team after completing a Robotics PhD at the University of Michigan. His work spans real-world robotics and perception research—ranging from AUV SLAM and 3D object detection at Carnegie Mellon’s TartanAUV to multi-view active perception with graph neural networks published at ICRA. He combines deep learning and systems skills from internships at Skydio, Intel, and Qualcomm with practical engineering in ROS, C++, Python, and production pipelines. Comfortable bridging research and production, he has a track record of shipping high-performance perception and AR systems and negotiating industry partnerships and sponsorships. Unexpectedly, he also has hands-on experience improving supply-chain logistics for a 1,000+ part university hackathon, reflecting an aptitude for operational problem-solving beyond pure engineering.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Robotics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Robotics at University of MichiganMission San Jose High SchoolBachelor of Science - BS Electrical and Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University
English, French, Tamil
Github Skills (12)
neural-rendering7
blender7
computer-graphics5
computer-vision4
python4
ai2
simulation1
randomization1
depth-estimation1
iot1
depth1
siggraph1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
Toms42/Monarch-Firmware
Jan 2019 - Dec 2024
Contributions:10 pushes, 3 branches in 5 years 11 months
advaiths12/slam_sandbox
Jun 2020 - Jul 2020
Contributions:30 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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